BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 6, 2023
Environmental advocates said Monday the answer to helping more endangered Atlantic salmon over a Penobscot River dam so they can spawn upstream is simple: add more places where fish can cross. The Natural Resources Council of Maine said that, according to a state Department of Marine Resources study, most of the Atlantic salmon that traveled up the Penobscot River and through Brookfield Renewable Partners’ hydroelectric dam in Milford failed to clear the dam within 48 hours. The 48-hour requirement, set by the Endangered Species Act, was meant to give the fish their best chance of reproducing.Maine is the only state with native Atlantic salmon populations.